McGee v. Ekberg

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 9, 1952

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1952-06-09

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Decided 1952-06-09

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1988 · most notably Beauharnais v. Illinois (1952), United States v. Bailey (1978)

14 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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Per Curiam:

¶1The judgment of the Court of Appeals is vacated and the case is remanded to the District Court with directions to dismiss the petition for *971writ of habeas corpus upon the ground that the cause is moot.

Doris H. Maier, Deputy Attorney General of California, argued the cause for petitioners. With her on the brief were Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General. Allan L. Sapiro argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.